Spike



Nov. 2', 1926. f 1,605,204

M I R E. BEEGLE SPIKE Filed March 1, 1924 Zliness es 7 [11%611 far v wgm Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

RAYMOND E. BEEGLE, or EAST s'r. Louis, ILLINOIS.

SPIKE.

Application filed March 1,

The object of my invention is to improve upon the construction of spike-like anchor devices by the introduction and use of corrugated wing construction, in order to get maximum strength and anchorage with the minimum amount of metal and to reduce to a minimum the tendency of such devices to split, weaken and create water-pockets when driven into ties'or timber.

A further aim is'the production of a rugged anchor device for general use; as a ground-anchor for tents, guy lines, autopull-outs, livestock, etc. As a joiner or fastener for sheet materials, beams and joists and the like; as a timber anchor for drawing and joining together the separated end portions of split ties, timbers, etc. The main features of my invention are the transverse joining of cupped, corrugated metal wings and the use of short anchor blades on upper portion to gain additional anchorage with a minimum weakening of timberinto which it is driven, as shown in the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a rear View embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a side view.

Figure 3 is a top view.

In the drawings the letter a designates a main anchor blade preferably terminating in a V-shaped or beveled end and preferably having a main supporting wing 6 attached thereto in any suitable manner, such as being made integral therewith. This preferred construction provides a body portion which is substantially T-shaped in transverse cross section. The wing 1) preferably terminates in a V-shaped or sharpened end f which results in a lower terminus which is substantially T-shaped in transverse cross section, and is preferably provided with fiber-locking corrugations i as shown. A head 0 is preferably provided and formed integral with the blade at and wing b. As a means for providing increased resistance to lateral movement of the blade at I prefer to employ some means such as the auxiliary anchor blades cl preferably terminating in a V-shaped end so as to facilitate driving and preferably being shorter in length than the main anchor blade or so as to offer less resistance to the initial starting of the. spike and, in cases where the spike is employed in fibrous materials, so as to provide for a minimum weakening of the fibers. As a 1924. Serial nofeseaes.

length so as to offer less resistance to the initial starting of the spike and so as to cause less fiber damage in cases 'where the I spike is employed in fibrous materials. The letters 6 and g designate fiber-locking pockets or recesses preferably formed in a surface of the anchor blades a and d and preferably of a shape substantially as shown such that the fiber, when expanded into these pockets or recesses will resist the longitudinal movement of the spike. It is evident that from the. shape shown this resistance is greater towards an upward movement than towards a downward movement.

The nature and scope of my invention having been described, what I claim as new and useful and aim to secure by Letters Patent 1s:

1. A spike having a main anchor blade terminating in a V-shaped end, an auxiliary anchor blade terminating in a V-shaped end, and a lateral supporting wing on said auxiliary anchor blade.

2. A spike having a main anchor blade, a main lateral supporting wing thereon, an auxiliary lateral anchor blade, and an auxiliary supporting Wing on said auxiliary anchor blade.

3. A spike having a main anchor blade terminating in a V-shaped end, a main lateral supporting wing thereon, an auxiliary anchor blade terminating in a V-shaped end, and an auxiliary lateral supporting wing on said auxiliary anchor blade;

4. A spike having a main anchor blade, a fiber-locking pocket in a surface thereof, an auxiliary anchor blade substantially shorter in length than said main anchor blade, a main supportingwing on said main anchor blade. and extending substantially the full length thereof, and an auxiliary supporting wing on said auxiliary anchor blade.

5. A spike having a head with a flanged lip, a main anchor blade, a supporting wing thereon terminating in a sharpened edge, an auxiliary anchor blade substantially shorter in length than said main anchor blade, and an auxiliary supporting wing on said auxiliary anchor blade, said auxiliary supporting Wing terminating in a sharpened edge.

6. A. spike comprising a main anchor blade, an auxiliary anchor blade, a main lateral supporting Wing on said main anchor blade, an auxiliary lateral supporting wing on said auxiliary anchor blade, and fiberlocking means carried by said blades and Wings.

7. A spike comprising a main anchor blade, an auxiliary anchor blade substantially shorter than said main anchor blade, a main lateral supporting wing on said main anchor blade, an auxiliary lateral supporting wing on said auxiliary anchor blade, said blades and wings terminating in V-shaped cutting edges, and fiber-locking means carried by said blades and wings.

8,111 a spike, the combination of a head portion, a body portion and a substantially T shaped lower terminus on said body portion; said terminus having entering edges thereon each formed by the meeting of two bevelled surfaces.

9. In a spike, the combination of a head portion, a body portion and a substantially T shaped lower terminus on said body portion; said body portion being substantially T shaped in transverse cross-section between said head portion and said terminus; said terminus comprising double bevelled V shaped entering edges on the lower extremities thereof.

10. In a spike, the combination of a head portion, a body portion and a substantially T shaped lower terminus on said body portion; said body portion being substantially 'l' shaped in transverse cross-section between said head portion and said terminus and comprising auxiliary anchor blades, said blades and said terminus being each pro vided with bevelled entering edges.

RAYMOND E. BEEG'LE. 

